Make a belated New Year’s resolution to become a certified payroll professional in 2018! NZPPA is very pleased to announce that the reworked and totally online certification process is open for business. We believe this is now a world-class certification process for payroll and will assist greatly in developing payroll as a recognised profession in […]
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Making the Holidays Act 2003 workable for payroll – Open letter to the Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety – Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
Please note: the following letter has been sent to the Minister today we are hoping for a real opportunity to try and resolve the issues with this act, we will keep you fully informed of any developments. Dear Minister The New Zealand Payroll Practitioners Association (NZPPA) was established in 2007 to develop and […]
KFC rosters manipulated to withhold days in lieu – former managers
Former store managers at fast food chain KFC say they were told to manipulate rosters in the lead up to public holidays so the company could avoid giving staff a day in lieu. The managers say employees who needed their shifts changed, stopping them from being entitled to a day in lieu, were highlighted in […]
Wendy’s illegally refused staff public holiday entitlements
To see the full ERA ruling click here Businesses across New Zealand will have to re-think how they deal with public holiday entitlements before Christmas – after a potentially precedent-setting Employment Relations Authority ruling. The Holidays Act says employees must be given a day in lieu if a public holiday “would otherwise be a working […]
HOLIDAY PAY: WHY DO BUSINESSES GET IT WRONG? WELL MYOB GOT THIS WRONG TO START WITH!
One of the issues with the Holidays Act 2003 is the payroll systems we are using and it does not help when a payroll supplier makes statements that are just wrong in relation to the Holidays Act. This just causes even more confusion with an unworkable Act and creates further risk to employers and the […]
NZPPA OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW MINISTER IN REGARD THE HOLIDAYS ACT 2003
Stop dreaming!! The new government will not get rid of this act so stop dreaming! Labour was the original government to introduce this *NIGHTMARE* The government could change the act back so: 1 week of annual holidays cannot be paid out, and ADP is replaced with the old 4 week average that was used under […]
BIG THANK YOU TO SPONSORS, EXHIBITERS, SPEAKERS AND OF COURSE ATTENDEES AT THIS YEAR’S 10TH ANNUAL PAYROLL CONFERENCE HELD IN AUCKLAND LAST WEEK ON THE 9-10 NOV
This year we celebrated our 10th year of running our annual payroll conference and I must apologise, I promised cake and being the organiser that is the one thing I forgot! Putting that aside NZPPA would like to thank the following: Datacom for being our platinum sponsor and a strong supporter of developing payroll as […]
NZ PAYROLL THEFT – STOP IT FROM HAPPENING NOW!
We don’t often see this happening in New Zealand but the key to stop theft in payroll is to ensure there are checks in place. NZPPA still comes across payrolls that only has one person doing the sign off and that is the person processing the pay! Sorry those days are gone we need […]
NZPPA’s 10th Annual Payroll Conference – Workshops, Workshops, Workshops!
At our conference running on the 9th & 10th November 2017, at the Sky City Convention Centre, Auckland we have been able to get a range of payroll SME’s to cover a wide range of payroll topics. There are 11 workshops on the second day of the conference and delegates get to choose 8 […]
MBIE makes the Holidays Act “easy” – NOT!
In a previous post I highlighted that MBIE has released an updated version of their publication Holidays Act 2003: Guidance on annual holidays, bereavement leave, alternative holidays, public holidays and sick leave. MBIE has now made an announcement about its release and this post will comment on that announcement section by section. NZPPA does not […]